High spectral resolution lidar for measuring aerosol and atmospheric state parameters using an iodine vapor filter at 532 nm
- Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States). Physics Dept.
Measurements of vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties and atmospheric temperatures are of considerable importance to atmospheric physics. It is therefore one of the principal goals of lidar measurements in the troposphere to measure directly the backscatter ratio and temperature profiles, thereby determining all relevant vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties and state variables of a troposphere in hydrostatic and local thermal equilibrium. A high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL), with the use of atomic or molecular vapor filters, can spectrally separate molecular and aerosol scattering return signals to allow measurements of vertical aerosol properties and temperature profiles. The authors report progress in developing a high spectral resolution lidar system that measures vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and aerosol optical properties using an iodine molecular vapor filter at a transmission wavelength of 532 nm.
- OSTI ID:
- 492302
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960848-; ISBN 0-8194-2221-5; TRN: IM9730%%181
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Denver `96: 1. conference on space processing of materials, at SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) annual international symposium on optical science, engineering, and instrumentation, Denver, CO (United States), 4-9 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Application of lidar to current atmospheric topics; Sedlacek, A.J. III [ed.] [Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Advanced Technology]; PB: 270 p.; SPIE proceedings series, Volume 2833
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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